Elsie, a bright articulate Finnish-American girl, begins school riding in a prairie wagon. She ends as a U.S. Protocol Officer arranging U.S. tours for heads of state and escorting official delegations overseas using presidential aircraft. Yet when diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she begins her most transcendent journey from body to spirit, emerging from the undertow of Alzheimer’s

All photography provided by Barbara Erakko

Eating Pizza for the First Time … Again.

When Mom no longer remembers eating pizza, she experiences it for the first time. Again.